On This Day in History December 1, 2022

Historical Events 1913  Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford 1934  Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalinuses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38 1955  Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama 1988  Benazir Bhutto named Prime Minister of Pakistan, the 1st female leader of a Muslim country Famous Birthdays Bette Midler 77th Birthday Georgy Zhukov 1896 - 1974 Pablo Escobar 1949 - 1993 Woody Allen 87th Birthday More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths David Ben-Gurion 1886 - 1973 Leo X 1475 - 1521 More Famous Deaths December 1: How the First Sherlock Holmes Story was Sold for a Song How did an English publisher most famous for giving the world Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management come to publish the first Sherlock Holmes story? Read the Article